DSS Arrests Fugitive Former Pension Reform Boss, Maina

 Abdulrasheed Maina.

Former Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina has been arrested in Abuja.

Maina was arrested by officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) after he had found his way into the country secretly.

“Following inter-agency collaboration, intelligence report indicated that Maina had sneaked into the country from Dubai, ” the DSS had said.

“He was trailed to an Abuja hotel where he was arrested after operatives outwitted those who tried to ferry him away in a bullet-proof vehicle.

“He is currently being quizzed. He is likely to be handed over to the EFCC for trial. He has a pending case since 2015.”

Maina was sacked in 2013 after absconding from duty, after a recommendation by the office of the Head of Service.

He was accused of involvement in fraud of N100billion. The Senate Committee on Public Service Establishment had  an investigation of the alleged fraud, before a warrant of arrest was issued against him.

The Police, in its reaction subsequently declared him wanted as he went into hiding.

He came back to Nigeria in 2017 and was secretly reinstated into the Ministry of Interior, before President Muhammadu Buhari ordered for his fresh dismissal and investigation into his case